Todays Confessional: Did you buy a Michael Bolton album?
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Album:Time, Love, & Tenderness
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Track:enough torture for now
Everybody has done it. You’re growing up, developing your tastes, discovering new places, people, things, songs. New songs. Awful songs.And I don’t mean to use “awful” in the positive context people have used the words “bad”, “sick”, or “dope”. Right…because when you hear something great you say “awful”…anyways…I really mean straight-up awful.It’s not like you saw it coming. You didn’t know 15 years later Michael Bolton, New Kids, Ice, or Hammer would become a tarnished blip on the pop radar and the laughing stock of the millennium. Around ’92 or so (I was 13), I’d ride with my buddy to church while his parents blasted “Time, Love, & Tenderness” in their car, among other special adult-contemporary hits. This brainwashing lasted for several months, during which I began to admire Bolton’s fine craft.I’m taking frequent breaks typing this to wash my hands of the memory. But yes…I actually bought….this is difficult, so bear with me…I uh, bought…his…………Mikeboltsalbum!Ah, there. I said it. Now how about you? Which ones did you buy that make you cringe when looking back? C’mon…you know you want to!
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